CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870); JOSEPH CLAYTON CLARKE 'KYD' (fl. 1882-1899) A one-page manuscript letter of 12 lines, signed, from 1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park, Twenty-Ninth of August 1844, from Dickens to H.H. Piper, stating: "Your approving, kind, and generous allusion to me in the Sermon from which my friend Mr. Tagart has sent me an extract, has afforded me heartfelt gratification ... I will endeavour never to forfeit your good opinion by the deviation of myself to any ends but those which have won me your approval" (lightly soiled). With a second one-page autograph letter of 14 lines, signed, from Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Tuesday Sixteenth June 1863, to Augustus Frederick Gore thanking him for sending him some chapters but stating: "I cannot have the pleasure of accepting them for 'all the Year Round.' But they go over ground which has been often traversed and I do not find enough novelty of manner or incident in them to instigate a new interest" (lightly soiled). Together with 3 original pen, ink and watercolour drawings by Joseph Clayton Clarke signed "Kyd," of "Sampson Brass 'The Old Curiosity Shop'"; "Mr. Pott 'The Pickwick Papers'"; and "Mr. Miving 'The Pickwick Papers,'" 8½ x 6½in., and an engraved portrait of Dickens after W.P. Frith, 7 x 4½in., all in two mounts, framed and glazed, 27½ x 15 and 17½ x 14½in. (2)
CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870); JOSEPH CLAYTON CLARKE 'KYD' (fl. 1882-1899) A one-page manuscript letter of 12 lines, signed, from 1 Devonshire Terrace, York Gate, Regents Park, Twenty-Ninth of August 1844, from Dickens to H.H. Piper, stating: "Your approving, kind, and generous allusion to me in the Sermon from which my friend Mr. Tagart has sent me an extract, has afforded me heartfelt gratification ... I will endeavour never to forfeit your good opinion by the deviation of myself to any ends but those which have won me your approval" (lightly soiled). With a second one-page autograph letter of 14 lines, signed, from Gad's Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent, Tuesday Sixteenth June 1863, to Augustus Frederick Gore thanking him for sending him some chapters but stating: "I cannot have the pleasure of accepting them for 'all the Year Round.' But they go over ground which has been often traversed and I do not find enough novelty of manner or incident in them to instigate a new interest" (lightly soiled). Together with 3 original pen, ink and watercolour drawings by Joseph Clayton Clarke signed "Kyd," of "Sampson Brass 'The Old Curiosity Shop'"; "Mr. Pott 'The Pickwick Papers'"; and "Mr. Miving 'The Pickwick Papers,'" 8½ x 6½in., and an engraved portrait of Dickens after W.P. Frith, 7 x 4½in., all in two mounts, framed and glazed, 27½ x 15 and 17½ x 14½in. (2)
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